Waiting lor Tommy Fri 9 Oct. 7.30pm. Borderline‘s Edinburgh Fringe show hits the big stage for one night as Iain McCoII stars as Tommy Cooper in David Cosgrove's one-man tribute to the comic and magician. There are no great insights here. but its a reasonablyenjoyable pastiche.

I PROJECTABILITY 18 Albion Street (across from the Tron)

Arts Connexion Classes Tues andThurs beginning 13 and 15 Oct. Various prices. 031 3460501. The fourth year in operation for the performing arts teaching collective with a choice of courses in singing. movement and acting. Pre-registration is recommended.

Y Cwmni returns to Tramway with three plays by Edward Thomas who is attempting to create a distinctively Welsh theatre tradition, albeit in the English language. Physical. poetic and blackly comic. the plays can be seen together orin isolation. developing from the Greek tragedy of House ofAmerica to the no-man‘s land of Flowers ofthe Dead Red Sea to the hope-through-story—tellingof 15m: from the Gantry. Recommended. Kala Chethena Kathakali Troupe Tue 20—Wed 21 Oct. 8pm. £6.50 (£4.50). See Dance and preview.

Cyrano de Bergerac Until Sun 11 Oct. 7.30pm. £6.50/£5.50 (£3.50/£3). Utterly wonderful production of Rostand‘s long-nosed tragi-comedy translated by Edwin Morgan and performed by Communicado. Fight to get tickets for what was easily the best show on this year's Edinburgh Fringe. The script is published in the new edition of Theatre Scotland.

The Lament torArthur Cleary ch14—Sun 18 Oct. 7.30pm. Wed—Thurs £5 (£2.50); Fri—Sun £6 (£3). Post-show discussion Fri 16 Oct. The Tron begins its month-long city-wide Festival of New Irish Theatre with 7:84‘5 production of this brilliant play by Dublin poet Dermot Bolger. The play, which tells the tale of an economic exile who returns to his native Ireland to ﬁnd it a less than savoury place. won a Fringe First in its original production in 1989 and is directed here by Iain Reekie. See preview.

playwrights discuss the contemporary role of theatre. while in the afternoon representitives of the Scottish and Irish Arts Councils talk about theatre training and internationalism. See preview.

Dixie Tue 20—Sun 25 Oct. 7.30pm. Tue-Thurs £5 (£2.50); Fri-Sun £6 (£3). Dublin‘s Storytellers Theatre Company takes Scotland's own Terry Neason on board to star in Sean McCarthy‘s play about a Gorbals girl living in East County Cork and taking on the might ofa multinational giant. See preview.

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I ADAM HOUSE THEATRE Chambers Street. Tickets on 225 8696.

One lor the Road ch 21—Sat 24 Oct. 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Willy Russell’s domestic sitcom about the frustrated hopes and aspirations of the inhabitants of a bungalow suburb is performed by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.

West End Show Stoppers: From Londonto Broadway Tue 13—Sat 17 Oct. 7 .30pm. Sat mat 2.30pm. £6. Back afterseII-out success last year, Edinburgh’s Showcase has put together another flamboyantly-staged selection of hits from musicals including Blood Brothers, Phantom of the Opera and A Chorus Line. All proceeds to Cancer ReliefMacMillan Fund.

Keepers 01 the Earth Tue 20 Oct. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). The fourth year ofthe Netherbow‘s excellent Storytelling Festival begins with Native American tales from Red Thunder Cloud on his ﬁrst visit to Scotland from the Catawba Indian Nation of North America. and traditional Scottish tales from the endearing Duncan Williamson. See Kids listings for other festival events.